CVE•Published 2026-06-15•Modified 2026-06-15•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2016-20073
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.2
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Answer My Question 1.3 plugin for WordPress contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries by injecting malicious code through the 'id' POST parameter. Attackers can submit crafted SQL statements to the modal.php endpoint to extract sensitive database information including WordPress terms and configuration data.
Timeline
Published 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-15
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2016-20073Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2016-20073Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2016-20073Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2016-20073GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2016-20073" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2016-20073 on GitHub.